A Tea & Books Baby Shower For 3

A lot of people we know are expecting little babies.

Three of whom I work with.

On Sunday afternoon I attended a high tea baby shower for my 

boss, her nanny, and a co-worker at the 

amazing Moana Surfrider Hotel in Waikiki.

It was a lot of fun and the tea was delicious!

It was good to be with these ladies outside of work

We were instructed to bring copies of our favorite children's book for the babies

Such a cute theme 

Another co-worker made the mommies a diaper cupcake, so creative

Tea sandwiches 

We had our choice of 1 of 6 Hawaiian teas

Amalis is expecting her first baby; a boy 

Shawna is expecting her first baby; a girl

& my boss is expecting her 3rd baby; her first girl

So excited for these happy mommies!! 

For the Love of Puppies

Last night we went to the farm for a little dinner party and to see the puppies.

Oh my gosh, they are so cute!

If we lived in a place that allowed pets there would be no question we would get one.

Twitch gave birth to 12 puppies, only one of which died. 

So the farm is full of dogs right now. 

It was so fun to hold them and watch them play together

I want one!!

Look at how cute they are

That's a lot of puppies surrounding Elko

The proud mama

Our old ladder got replaced with these amazing stairs

It was another good night on the farm.

We are so lucky to have such amazing people in our lives.

In other news,

Zach and I signed up for a month of unlimited yoga.

I am so happy and proud of Zach wanting to try and learn about yoga.

He is doing so well with it and we enjoy going together. 

Also, we are looking forward to our trip to Lancaster at the end of this month.

We are going home for Zach's friend's wedding.

It's going to be a very busy week for us but we are so excited to see friends and family. 

But until then we'll continue to enjoy our time on the island! 

Camp Friends

We had an impromptu Monday night this week and we enjoyed it very much!

We ended up driving to the western part of the island to have dinner with Brad and his fiance Christina, our camp friends.

In 2004 I had the privilege of going with Zach's family for the weekend to Catalina Island to see Zach at Camp Emerald Bay. He spent that summer working at boy scout camp; something he had done for a few summers before I met him.

That summer we wrote numerous letters back and forth 

and talked on the phone once a week. 

We had only been dating a few months before he left that summer

so I was beyond excited to travel to Catalina Island with his family to see him.

Luckily, I had the opportunity of working at Camp Emerald Bay with Zach in 2007 & 2008. 

That experience is one of the best things I have done in my life and I'm so thankful I got to experience that part of Zach's life. 

We have lifelong camp friends.

And Brad is definitely one of them. 

Us at Camp Emerald Bay 2007

We were talking about how nice it would be to go back to camp some day.

......

Brad and his family were staying in Ko Olina, the western side of the island. 

We were really excited to see our friends and check out the new part of the island.

Ko Olina is resort community and we were surprised by how nice and uncrowded it is. 

We truly had a great night.

We have missed hanging out with good friends. 

Us at Ko Olina 2013 

Brad's sister, Christina, Brad, Zach, & me

We had such a fun time!

So good to see them!

The Farm

It has been 7 months since we stopped living on the farm

and we are blown away with how the farm has grown!

Every couple of months we go back to visit the farm and see what's new

and every time the progress is greater and greater.

The other weekend Zach and I went to the Ala Moana Farmers Market to buy some greens from the farm and we were pleasantly surprised to see John sitting at the booth. 

He said every Saturday and Sunday they harvest their greens at 5am and they sell out of their produce at both markets. 

Now they are working on making more grow beds in order to have more greens to sell. They have also been selling some fish, which is great and they are starting a CSA soon that we are super excited for. 

On Friday we went to the farm to look at the increased of production and see all the new happenings.

We couldn't believe all the change. 

It's so good to see the farm, the first stepping stone to our Hawaiian adventure, growing. 

We are so happy for John and Elko and Nalolicious! 

John at the Nalolicious booth

The tastiest sprouts ever

This is the increase in production for sprouts...when we were there we were making about 7 trays a week, now they are doing about 12 trays a day

The WWOOFer's garden

There's a ton of kale

The view from John's porch; I'm sure he loves it

We helped build, weed, nourish and plant these berms. 

They were pretty bare when we left, now look at them

This pup, Rusty, is a new addition to the farmily

he loves to watch the fish

We love their greens

It's good to know all of our hard cinder washing went to good use!

Amazing view

This is actually where our tent was.

They cleared out this entire area and are turning into WWOOFer City.

John said the plan is to build more 8x8 "rooms" for WWOOFers in the future

All of this use to be a thick forest of trees and brush

 We could hardly even walk through it

We will be back soon because Twitch is pregnant and we can't wait to see her puppies!

Zach and I were talking about how cool it would be to be a WWOOFer on the farm now because there's much more responsibility with harvesting, planting, and maintaining everything.

But John always reminds us we were a big part of the farm. 

End Of May Photos

Happy June!

We are excited for the start of summer.
We've been taking a lot of pictures lately,
here's the latest happenings with us...

Our living room is starting to come together!

We want to get an area rug and small coffee table and a few more things on the wall.

Last Sunday night we went to China Walls to watch the 3 planets align. 

We had fun taking pictures and enjoyed the sunset. 

Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter

On Memorial day we tried to go to Hanauma Bay in the morning but the parking lot was full so we continued driving a little ways and stopped to explore some cliffs off the side of the road before Sandy Beach.

We had fun exploring!

Zach and his buddy from work went spear fishing the other day and caught all these fish!

Zach was excited and I think he really enjoyed going with a friend who has some local experience. 

We have 3 of these fish in our freezer, we just need to figure out how to prepare and eat them. 

We love our honu friend! 

More Pictures!

Berna sent us her pictures from their trip. 

There's some good ones.

We loved having them here!

At the Shack for dinner

Our front stairs

Waiting for the submarine

Much aloha 

At Dole

It was fun driving around in a convertible!

Waimea Bay